Indias y fronteras: el discurso en torno a la mujer Étnica.

This studylooks for a clear answer to the theoretical and
practical problems entailed by the definition of an identity for U.S. women
in particular and for ethnic women in general. Firstly, Martínez analyses the
basis of the patriarchal and colonising discourse that has limited and
marginalised native women through alienating, silencing images. The author
then establishes a dialogue with the two main critical responses to this
discourse: on the one hand, she examines the tendencies that mark the native,
female difference, by rewriting and asserting a positive voice; on the other,
she analyses those which advocate overcoming the frontiers as well as the reconstruction
of marginalising languages to demand hybridity and crossbreeding. Thus, the
author puts forward a definition of the post-Indian identity, which she
describes as an overcoming of simple categories of gender and ethnicity
through the subversion and recreation of meanings, and the reconstruction of
old images and new narratives which highlight dialogue and integration.